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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2024

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  2. BSD Leftovers
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  3. today's leftovers
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  4. Windows TCO: Microsoft Causes Chaos, Even Kills People (Again)
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  5. Our Gemini Capsule is Turning Two [original]
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  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  8. Programming/Development Leftovers
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  9. Android Leftovers
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  10. Mini review – Maintain focused productivity with Blanket for Linux
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  11. Apache Software Foundation Becomes Politics
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  12. Android Leftovers
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  13. Nvidia News
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  14. Immich Introduces Licensing in the Latest Update
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  15. today's howtos
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  16. Pulsar 1.119 Code Editor Brings Refined Tools and Fixes
    Pulsar 1.119, a free & open-source cross-platform code editor
  17. GNOME’s New Video Player is Now Available on Flathub
    Were you excited by news GNOME plans to replace the Totem media player in its core software set with a new, modern, and actively maintained app called Showtime
  18. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  19. Collections of Different Linux Distributions
    A distro provides the user with a desktop environment, preloaded applications, and ways to update and maintain the system
  20. Top 7 Open Source CAD Software & AutoCAD Alternatives
    The open source ecosystem is quite large and reaches many aspects of modern daily life
  21. OrangePi 5 Max SBC with M.2 Key Slot and 2.5GbE LAN Port
    The OrangePi 5 Max supports multiple operating systems, including OrangePi OS (Droid, Arch, OH), Ubuntu, Debian, and Android 12
  22. Stable kernels: Linux 6.9.10, Linux 6.6.41, Linux 6.1.100, Linux 5.15.163, Linux 5.10.222, Linux 5.4.280, and Linux 4.19.318
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  24. Largely Open Source GitLab Is Evidently for Sale and Datadog Is Interested
    People close to GitLab have told Reuters that the DevOps pipeline service is looking for a buyer and that cloud monitoring company Datadog is expressing an interest
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    804 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
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    758 /n/2024/07/14/RISC_V_Based_Lichee_Pi_3A_with_16GB_RAM_and_PCIe_Support.shtml
    753 /n/2024/07/13/Reaching_Higher.shtml
    750 /n/2024/07/16/Audacity_3_6_Open_Source_Audio_Editor_Released_with_Master_Effe.shtml
    741 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    737 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    733 /n/2024/07/12/OBS_Studio_30_2_Released_with_NVENC_AV1_Support_on_Linux_Unifie.shtml
    731 /n/2024/07/16/KDE_Plasma_6_1_3_Improves_Flatpak_Support_in_Discover_Fixes_Mor.shtml
    726 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    720 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    717 /n/2024/07/14/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    713 /n/2024/07/13/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    712 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml
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